Grade 10 January 5-14, 2011

Welcome back grade 10! We are starting the year with a unit on Graphic Design. There is so much to learn about in this area so our goal will be to find out how much we don't know and to develop some basics in this area of art and design. We will be working with two "clients". Mr. William Shakespeare and Ms. Debra Giles. Both have needs for good visual communication devises.



Also this week is our second Library Lock-In. We will begin work at 3:30 January 13 and be ready to join our classes 8:00am January 14. Hopefully we will have all but the finishing touches left to enjoy at the end of our work session. Parents please look for the permission slips that will be heading your way Monday.



Thanks to everyone who is working to make the Library Rainforest Mural a success.

Welcome Grade 8 January 5-14,2011

Welcome to Grade 8 students who are joining us for Visual Arts second semester. We will get to meet every school day during the second semester. We will be starting with an orientation to the illustrated journal or sketchbook-research workbook. We will spend the first week reviewing and renewing skills from last year before we move onto new experiments.



Be sure to bring your sketchbook/journal to class everyday along with a good #2 pencil. I am looking forward to a fun and creative semester with you all.

All Secondary Art Classes

Good Luck on Your Semester Final Exams!

It has been a busy semester for everyone. Thank you for all of your good efforts and your creative thinking. I will return work on Thursday. Then it will be time to celebrate with Songfest. See you there.

DINNER AND SONGFEST - We would like to remind all parents that our annual Songfest will take place this coming Thursday December 16th. The DPTO will be selling Holiday food an hour before the student presentations, which will be starting promptly at 6:00 p.m. We invite all parents and students to come at 5:00 p.m. for supper, to catch up with friends, purchase the Choir CD and the Discovery School cookbook for holiday gifts, and enjoy the presentations our students have been working on. The program should last about one hour and thirty minutes. We hope to see you all there.

Beowolf in the Art Room

Mr. Fenn and his AP British Literature class came to the art room to model game pieces based on Beowolf. We experimented with two different modeling materials. The final pieces are made from Sculpy clay. It is a polymer clay that can be baked in the table top oven purchased by grade 10 from the proceeds of their silent auction last spring. Students will be using the game pieces as they battle their way around the specially designed game board designed by Mr. Fenn. Students will be sure to remember this important work of British Literature.

Advanced Art / AP - Grades 11/12, December 6-10, 2010

Advanced Art/AP Students are busy completing their 10 preliminary drawings for their individual areas of concentration. Last week they experimented with powdered graphite and the ways it can be used to create textures and backgrounds.

Grade 10 December 6-10, 2010

Grade 10 students are taking a close look at the work of Wassily Kandinsky, the father of abstract art. They will create their own compositions that visually interpret a musical score. They will learn a variety of colored pencil techniques using our new Prisma colored pencils.

Grade 9 December 6-10, 2010

Grade 9 students are adding the last layers of papier-mâché to their 3D logo designs and then it will be time to add the surface treatments and designs. We are working with focus to finish them before the New Year.